Improvement in sealing-wax packages



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

WILLIAM J. LUMB, or ZANESVILLE, onto,v

IMPROVEMENT m SEALlNG-rWAX PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Ila 143,771, dated October21, 1873 application filed October 3, 1873.

ings, which formpart of this specification.

My invention relates to an. improved article of manufacture; andconsists in a package of sealing-wax prepared in an economic andconi'enient shape for the trade, and designed more especially forsealing-wax used in sealing fruit, &c.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the package, and Fig. 2 a View ofthe same in cross-section, in which- Ais the box; B, the sealing-wax;and G, the cover of the box. p

I take an ordinary box, of paper fabric'or other similar material, ofany desired shape, which is made to hold a specified weight of thesealing compound-as, for instance, one-half pound, one pound, &c. I thentake the wax in a melted state and turn intirthe-box until it is filledto the .top. The wax will, in cooling,

solidify and adhere firmly to the sides of the box. I then place acox'er on the box, and on. the cover, I place a printed label containingdirections how touse, 8:0. This cover may,'it' desired, be placed onbefore the wax has cooled, so as to adhere firmly; and the cover may beplaced on the end of the box instead of on the side, as shown.

To use the wax, cut away the box at the end, so as to expose aportioinof the wax, and melt the same oif with a hot iron directly uponthe jaror can.

The cover, if at the end of the box, ran-he replaced as fast as the boxis cut away.

What I claim is- As anarticle of manufacture, the within-dcscribedsealing-wax package, composed of the box A, wax B, which has been pouredin a melted state into the box, and permitted to harden therein andadhere to the sides thereof, and the cover 0, substantially as describedand shown.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this29th day of September, 1873.

. WM. J. 'LUMB.

Witnesses: I

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